The Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas
November 6, 1885 Friday
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Sherman Criminalities
Sherman, November 5 - Henry Duncan, colored, this morning went home and knocked both his mother and father down. He wasn't satisfied, and proceeded to pummel the balance of the family. He was taken in charge by a policeman and now abideth in the station-house, where he is held on a charge of aggravated assault.


Dallas Morning News
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Day's News From Sherman
November 9, 1885

Henry Duncan, colored, was arrested on charge of aggravated assault on his father.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
December 27, 1885 Sunday
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SHERMAN
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., - Dec. 26 - Henry Duncan, an exuberant negro, got on the warpath last night and used his little gun freely. He went to the house of Henry Irvine, colored, where a dance was in progress, and fired several shots into the crowd. A boy named Joe Montello was slightly wounded in the hip and Jordan Whitley got a flesh wound in the shoulder; another shot or two failed to hit anybody, but scared the crowd badly. Duncan then went home and got up a quarrel with his half-brother, George Valden, which ended in his shooting George in the mouth and cutting his lip, but the wounds are not dangerous in either case. Duncan could not be found to-day.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
January 14, 1886 Thursday
pg 4

SHERMAN

Henry Duncan on Trial for Firing a
Pistol into a Crowded Room

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., Jan. 13. - Henry Duncan, the negro who to on the warpath during Christmas week, and after shooting into a crowded house and wounding two boys, then shot his half brother, Geo. Vaden, in the mouth,
had his examining trial this morning for shooting Vaden, and was held to answer in the sum of $500 bond. His examination for shooting the two boys will be heard hereafter, but as he is not able to make a bond in the first
case he will, no doubt, languish in jail until the next term of the district court, when his cases will be disposed of.